Pieta

Profile Movie: Pieta Revised romanization: Pieta Hangul: 피에타 Director: Kim Ki-Duk Assistant Director: Moon Si-Hyun Writer: Kim Ki-Duk Producer: Kim Soon-Mo Cinematographer: Jo Young-Jik World Premiere: September 3, 2012 (Venice Film Festival) Release Date: September 6, 2012 Runtime: 104 min. Genre: Drama / Arthouse / Revenge / Best Film-Movie of the Year / Mother & Son Distributor: Next Entertainment World Language: Korean Country: South KoreaPlot A vicious man (Lee Jung-Jin) works for a loan shark as an enforcer. When customers are unable to pay for their outrageous interest payments the man forces these borrowers to gimp their own bodies to collect insurance money. A woman (Jo Min-Soo) then appears in front of the man and gets down on her knees. She tells the man that she is her mother and begs for forgiveness. The vicious man was given up for adoption as soon as he was born. The man quickly dismisses the woman as crazy, but her persistence soon cracks through the man’s hardened outer shell. Can the mother and son find happiness at last?